Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Luncheon prompts farmer protests
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — While President Reagan attends a $500-a-plate luncheon today at the posh Union Station, renovated by tax credits the administration wants to eliminate, farmers and the poor plan to protest outside.
Members of the American Agriculture Movement, Christians United for Compassionate Government, Pax Christi and the St. Louis April Mobilization Coalition all planned demonstrations outside the newly renovated showplace.
The presidential stop is a fund-raiser for former Gov. Christopher Bond's Senate race.
"There's a disparity when the president can attend a $500-aplate dinner for Bond and look the
"We had a chance to get a farm bill in Washington; it was one of the most cost-effective bills introduced, but everytime the family farm policy act came up, Mr. Reagan hollered veto," Zeeb said.
other way as farmers lose their farms," said Jim Zeeb of the American Agriculture Movement of Illinois.
Zeeb said he expected farmers from Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska to attend the protest. They will carry handmade white crosses to symbolize the demise of the family farm.
have remained a vacant hulk without the investment tax credit the administration wants to end. Once the nation's busiest rail terminal, it slipped into gradual decline in the 1950s and closed in the late 1970s.
The renovated Union Station. 91 years old, would
Oppenheimer Properties of New York transformed it into a glittering showplace of nearly 100 shops and restaurants.
The Rev. Larry Rice of the Christians United for Compassionate Government said hundreds of poor and homeless people would be outside the station as Reagan "entertains the rich and powerful."
And at the same time the Republican fund-raiser begins, a $1-a-plate protest lunch to benefit the needy will get under way at a Roman Catholic Church on the city's south side.
2004 W.23rd
Man fights mob power in Palermo
The Associated Press
PALERMO. Sicily — "If you let fear stop you, nothing will change," says Mayor Lecluca Orlando, who is trying to rid Palermo of Mafia influence that has been woven into the city's fabric over centuries.
Orlando has much to fear and much to change as mayor of a city whose streets have been stained by the blood of like-minded men in the struggle against the Mafia.
The mayor says he thinks success will come only through the people's will and the state's unwavering commitment.
When the trial of 474 alleged Mafia members began Monday, Orlando was in the courtroom, sitting in a show of solidarity with the widows and children of men who were killed fighting the pervasive criminal society.
He says the trial is a sign that the state is serious, but that it and other trials to follow are not enough.
"You fight the Mafia with repression but also with economic development." he savs.
Italy's poor south is ripe prey for organized crime, he says. Unemployment in the south is twice the national rate of about 11 percent.
Unemployment in Palermo's construction trades is roughly 40 percent and the city's shipyards suffer the general malaise afflicting that industry. he saws.
Since taking office in July, the 38-year-old Christian Democrat has earned a reputation for boldness, honesty and courage.
The mayor has badgered Italy's central government for funds to provide work for the jobless, recently winning 25 billion lire (about $14.5 million) that will put 1,000 men to work repairing and maintaining roads, monuments and parks.
An example of Orlando's approach to the job is his decision that contracts for city services and construction be granted by competitive bidding. The previous system, considered ideal for the Mafia, was to give the jobs to those who had previous contracts with the city, regardless of cost or qualifications.
The Maffa's strength has been attributed in part to a Sicilian distrust of outsiders inspired by centuries of foreign exploitation that led peasants to turn to bandits for protection — for a price.
In Palermo, good relations with the Mafia could mean a job for a son or nephew, or permission to open a certain business in the turf of a crime boss.
The young are his favorite allies. High school students, often rallied by the Roman Catholic Church, have marched in the streets to protest Mafia influence.
Orlando says that arrangement is weakening and the wave of killings of police officials, government leaders, journalists and judges investigating the Mafia has convinced many of Palermo's people that their world must change.
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